Mike Myers was again tonight as Elon Musk for one more SNL chilly open.
After the March 6 closed-door cupboard assembly blow up between Marco Rubio and Elon Musk, SNL had Donald Trump brokering a truce between Secretary of State “good little Marco” and the SpaceX proprietor over DOGE’s root canals on the U.S. authorities — with some White Lotus and Dr. Evil tossed in there.
“You’re the GOAT, you’re the scapegoat, however it’s nonetheless a goat,” James Austin Johnson’s Trump informed Marcello Hernández’s Rubio. “Who the hell does he assume he’s?” SNL’s POTUS requested himself of his 2016 GOP nomination rival. “Adrien Brody?”
SNL’s Rubio might imagine he’s the two-time Oscar winner, who gave a very lengthy Oscar speech, however the present’s newest Elon proudly referred to as himself “tech assist,” because the real-life Musk does too.
Tossing the one-liners round, some instantly from the true Trump, Musk and Rubio, the most effective a part of tonight’s Oval Workplace chilly open was all Myers — just like last week.
“Section one among my plan is full,” Myers’ Musk mentioned in some inside (aka voiceover) dialogue. “Ingratiate your self to the president and take over the media. However was taking this job a nasty thought? Lots of people appear to actually hate me. My Tesla inventory is crashing, and my private web value simply dropped by $100 billion.”
The Studio 8H crowd went loopy with the reference to the Austin Powers’ villain as Myers held his pinkie as much as his closed mouth with Dr. Evil’s signature transfer.
And who’s to say a fourth Austin Powers film with Elon Musk because the long-lost offspring of Dr. Evil wouldn’t work — govt produced by Lorne Michaels, after all.
Tonight’s SNL comes off per week that noticed the Anora dominating the Oscars, Trump’s excruciating lengthy tirade earlier than a joint session of Congress, and extra public reward of Putin by POTUS. Since Shane Gillis hosted Saturday Night Live final week, there’s additionally been the freezing of U.S. navy shipments and intelligence sharing with Ukraine. If that wasn’t sufficient, the previous week’s seen stock-market plunges, tariff flip-flops involving Canada and Mexico, EU and UK protection proclamations, and a really heat Sin Metropolis welcome by Ari Emanuel’s pal and UFC boss Dana White to self-declared misogynist and lady beater Andrew Tate on the eve of Worldwide Ladies’s Day.
All of which is to say, three weeks after the virtually political satire free SNL50: The Anniversary Particular aired, the nonetheless early days of Trump 2.0 continues to supply SNL writers with an overload of fabric to select from for chilly opens and extra. Plus, in a 50th season wealthy with cameos from famous person former forged members, the extra Myers, the higher.
Being that even with all his errors, exploding spacecraft and different pressured errors, Musk doesn’t look to be leaving Trump’s aspect anytime quickly, hopefully there’ll be extra Myers on SNL this season.
Along with her Mayhem album simply launched on Friday, Lady Gaga is each host and musical visitor on tonight’s 982nd episode of SNL. Having debuted on October 3, 2009, tonight is Joker 2 star Gaga’s fifth time because the musical visitor on the NBC present. For triviaheads, it is usually the second time the Grammy winner has been each musical visitor and host.
